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2007 AMC 10B

All 25 problems from the 2007 AMC 10B. Take it as a timed mock test — 1:15:00 on the clock, scored the way the real contest is — or read through the problems and open any of them for hints and a worked solution.

25 problems · 6 points correct, 1.5 for blank, 0 for wrong

  1. Isabella’s house has 33 bedrooms. Each bedroom is 1212 feet long, 1010 feet wide, and 88 feet high. Isabella must paint the walls of all the bedrooms. Doorways and windows, which will not be painted, occupy 6060 square feet in each bedroom. How many square feet of walls must be painted?
  2. Define the operation ⋆\star by a⋆b=(a+b)b.a\star b = (a+b)b. What is (3⋆5)−(5⋆3)?(3\star 5)-(5\star 3)?
  3. A college student drove his compact car 120120 miles home for the weekend and averaged 3030 miles per gallon. On the return trip the student drove his parents’ SUV and averaged only 2020 miles per gallon. What was the average gas mileage, in miles per gallon, for the round trip?
  4. The point OO is the center of the circle circumscribed about △ABC,\triangle ABC, with ∠BOC=120∘\angle BOC = 120^\circ and ∠AOB=140∘,\angle AOB = 140^\circ, as shown. What is the degree measure of ∠ABC?\angle ABC?
  5. In a certain land, all Arogs are Brafs, all Crups are Brafs, all Dramps are Arogs, and all Crups are Dramps. Which of the following statements is implied by these facts?
  6. The 20072007 AMC 1010 will be scored by awarding 66 points for each correct response, 00 points for each incorrect response, and 1.51.5 points for each problem left unanswered. After looking over the 2525 problems, Sarah has decided to attempt the first 2222 and leave only the last 33 unanswered. How many of the first 2222 problems must she solve correctly in order to score at least 100100 points?
  7. All sides of the convex pentagon ABCDEABCDE are of equal length, and ∠A=∠B=90∘.\angle A = \angle B = 90^\circ. What is the degree measure of ∠E?\angle E?
  8. On the trip home from the meeting where this AMC 1010 was constructed, the Contest Chair noted that his airport parking receipt had digits of the form bbcac,bbcac, where 0≤a<b<c≤9,0\le a\lt b\lt c\le 9, and bb was the average of aa and c.c. How many different five-digit numbers satisfy all these properties?
  9. A cryptographic code is designed as follows. The first time a letter appears in a given message it is replaced by the letter that is 11 place to its right in the alphabet (assuming that the letter A is one place to the right of the letter Z). The second time this same letter appears in the given message, it is replaced by the letter that is 1+21+2 places to the right, the third time it is replaced by the letter that is 1+2+31+2+3 places to the right, and so on. For example, with this code the word “banana” becomes “cbodqg”. What letter will replace the last letter s in the message “Lee’s sis is a Mississippi miss, Chriss!”?
  10. Two points BB and CC are in a plane. Let SS be the set of all points AA in the plane for which △ABC\triangle ABC has area 1.1. Which of the following describes S?S?
  11. A circle passes through the three vertices of an isosceles triangle that has two sides of length 33 and a base of length 2.2. What is the area of this circle?
  12. Tom’s age is TT years, which is also the sum of the ages of his three children. His age NN years ago was twice the sum of their ages then. What is TN?\frac{T}{N}?
  13. Two circles of radius 22 are centered at (2,0)(2,0) and at (0,2).(0,2). What is the area of the intersection of the interiors of the two circles?
  14. Some boys and girls are having a car wash to raise money for a class trip to China. Initially 40%40\% of the group are girls. Shortly thereafter two girls leave and two boys arrive, and then 30%30\% of the group are girls. How many girls were initially in the group?
  15. The angles of quadrilateral ABCDABCD satisfy ∠A=2∠B=3∠C=4∠D.\angle A = 2\angle B = 3\angle C = 4\angle D. What is the degree measure of ∠A,\angle A, rounded to the nearest whole number?
  16. A teacher gave a test to a class in which 10%10\% of the students are juniors and 90%90\% are seniors. The average score on the test was 84.84. The juniors all received the same score, and the average score of the seniors was 83.83. What score did each of the juniors receive on the test?
  17. Point PP is inside equilateral △ABC.\triangle ABC. Points Q,Q, R,R, and SS are the feet of the perpendiculars from PP to AB‾,\overline{AB}, BC‾,\overline{BC}, and CA‾,\overline{CA}, respectively. Given that PQ=1,PQ = 1, PR=2,PR = 2, and PS=3,PS = 3, what is AB?AB?
  18. A circle of radius 11 is surrounded by 44 circles of radius rr as shown. What is r?r?
  19. The wheel shown is spun twice, and the randomly determined numbers opposite the pointer are recorded. The first number is divided by 4,4, and the second number is divided by 5.5. The first remainder designates a column, and the second remainder designates a row on the checkerboard shown. What is the probability that the pair of numbers designates a shaded square?
  20. A set of 2525 square blocks is arranged into a 5×55\times 5 square. How many different combinations of 33 blocks can be selected from that set so that no two are in the same row or column?
  21. Right △ABC\triangle ABC has AB=3,AB=3, BC=4,BC=4, and AC=5.AC=5. Square XYZWXYZW is inscribed in △ABC\triangle ABC with XX and YY on AC‾,\overline{AC}, WW on AB‾,\overline{AB}, and ZZ on BC‾.\overline{BC}. What is the side length of the square?
  22. A player chooses one of the numbers 11 through 4.4. After the choice has been made, two regular four-sided (tetrahedral) dice are rolled, with the sides of the dice numbered 11 through 4.4. If the number chosen appears on the bottom of exactly one die after it is rolled, then the player wins $1.\$1. If the number chosen appears on the bottom of both of the dice, then the player wins $2.\$2. If the number chosen does not appear on the bottom of either of the dice, the player loses $1.\$1. What is the expected return to the player, in dollars, for one roll of the dice?
  23. A pyramid with a square base is cut by a plane that is parallel to its base and is 22 units from the base. The surface area of the smaller pyramid that is cut from the top is half the surface area of the original pyramid. What is the altitude of the original pyramid?
  24. Let nn denote the smallest positive integer that is divisible by both 44 and 9,9, and whose base-1010 representation consists of only 44’s and 99’s, with at least one of each. What are the last four digits of n?n?
  25. How many pairs of positive integers (a,b)(a,b) are there such that aa and bb have no common factors greater than 11 and ab+14b9a\frac{a}{b}+\frac{14b}{9a} is an integer?

0 of 25 answered. Each problem left blank still scores 1.5 points.

Practise one problem at a time, with hints and solutions, on the practice page. Or work through the same ideas across every year by topic, or browse the full AMC 10 archive.